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The Eatery

Crowd-rated eating — snap a photo of your meal, and let a crowd of strangers rate how healthy it looks.

77/100

one photo at a time

The Eatery threw out calorie counting and asked a simpler, weirder question instead: snap a photo of what you're about to eat, and let a crowd of strangers rate how healthy it looks. No database of foods to search, no barcode to scan — just a photo and a number, repeated enough times that patterns start to show up in your own habits.

It turned out crowd guesses about "how healthy does this look" were a surprisingly good proxy for the real thing — cheap to build, weirdly fun to use, and much stickier than a conventional food diary ever managed to be.

IMG PLACEHOLDER — Meal photo
IMG PLACEHOLDER — Meal photo
IMG PLACEHOLDER — Rating UI
IMG PLACEHOLDER — Meal photo
IMG PLACEHOLDER — Weekly trend
IMG PLACEHOLDER — Meal photo
Year
2012
Company
Massive Health
Platform
iOS
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